By David Shepardson and Mark Hosenball
By David Shepardson and Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. authorities believes Iran by chance shot down a Ukraine airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 individuals aboard, three U.S.officers advised Reuters on Thursday.
Citing an in depth evaluation of satellite tv for pc knowledge, one official mentioned the U.S. authorities had concluded with a excessive diploma of certainty that Iranian anti-aircraft missiles introduced down the airplane.
The officers mentioned the airplane had been tracked by Iranian radar earlier than the missiles had been fired.
The information confirmed the Ukrainian Worldwide Airways Boeing 737-800 BA.N certain for Kiev was airborne for 2 minutes after departing Tehran when the warmth signatures of two surface-to-air missiles had been detected, one of many officers mentioned.
That was shortly adopted by an explosion within the neighborhood of the airplane, this official mentioned. Warmth signature knowledge then confirmed the airplane on fireplace because it went down.
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